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ISTANBUL–The curious case of a Turkish aid truck stopped this week by military police near the Syrian border suggests that a power struggle among factions of Turkey’s ruling party has gravitated to an important new front; Ankara’s Syria policy.

On Wednesday evening, a delivery truck en route to the Kilis border gate was stopped by police, after a tip off that it was carrying weapons and ammunition, according to a prosecutor’s report leaked to the press. But when police halted the truck in Hatay province, intelligence officers escorting the convoy prevented them from searching its contents on the grounds that the load was a “state secret,” sparking a raft of theories of what was inside the vehicle, and why the police and Turkey’s spy agency were clashing over its contents. Read More »